Why does this occur?

[dark_fox1950]

I've just had an experience where an auction buyer outbid me, but he/she was 3 seconds late with the final and it went through to him/her.

Not good enough. If an auction finishes at 16:05, that's when the final bid take hold - not 3 seconds after!

Here is a link to the bidding history:

https://www.ebay.com.au/bfl/viewbids/123656948804?item=123656948804&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&sho...

which I might add is still not available on My eBay account page. I had to get the link from eBay's Support.

And I'm still waiting for the e-mail that contains a transcript of the live chat.

So much for eBay's auctioning process. It will be may last attempt - EVER. 

[lyndal1838]

Sorry, but the winning bid was placed 26 seconds before the official end of the auction.

You may be upset at missing out but that is no reason to accuse ebay or the buyer of dirty tricks.

[repentatleisure1952]

"Not good enough. If an auction finishes at 16:05, that's when the final bid take hold - not 3 seconds after!"

The auction ended at 16.05.29

The winner placed their bid at 16.05.03

"So much for eBay's auctioning process. It will be may last attempt - EVER. "

If reading is not your strong suit that may be a good idea.

[enigmabear]

Agreed

OP, the link you gave shows

• Time Ended:
  28 Feb 2019 at 16:05:29 AEDST

Winning bid

28 Feb 2019 at 16:05:03 AEDST

Not seeing the problem, end time was 16:05:29  NOT 16:05:00

[enigmabear]

There's that slow Bear again

[lyndal1838]

Maybe an extra spoonful of coffee in the morning brew Bear?

[imastawka]

I agree with everybody else. 

You haven't considered the seconds, only the hour and minutes.

• Bidders:
  4
• Bids:
  23
• Time Ended:
  28 Feb 2019 at 16:05:29 AEDST
• Duration:
  7 days

Your bidding history should be in My ebay under Bids/offers

Items you didn't win will now show in the Didn't win section of this page.

[enigmabear]

Hardly surprising the person on Live Chat did'nt point it out, they should have,if they did indeed look at the link they provided

OP bid at 28 Feb 2019 at 16:04:49 AEDST

Winning bidder bid at 28 Feb 2019 at 16:05:03 AEDST

Auction ended  28 Feb 2019 at 16:05:29 AEDST

Then again, if eBay CS did do a quarter of the things they 'should' do this forum would be rather a lot quiter

[padi*0409]

As the others have said you were outbid before the auction finished.

BUT you may well have won the auction if you had put your highest bid in during the last few seconds of the auction, instead of nibble-bidding against one other bidder. All nibble-bidding does is raise the selling price on auctions - not a sensible way to win auctions.

[springyzone]

How right you are, enigmabear. Why on earth didn't the ebay rep point that out? I can only conclude they didn't even look. Extremely slack, they could have cleared it up for the OP in seconds.

Dark fox, the good news is there were no underhand dealings or strange things going on, you just missed seeing the seconds. It can be easy to misread the clock at first glance.

But what it comes down to is the fact that the other person won the auction fair & square. If you are disappointed because you would have bid more had you known, it would probably be worth putting in your top bid on any future auctions. It will only go up to that if it has to.